Despite rapid growth of our knowledge on the phylum Rotifera, only few studies on Iranian rotifers have been carried out. In this paper, we present a checklist of rotifers from the province of Tehran in Iran. In total, 45 species of rotifers (class Eurotatoria) are reported. Most of the recorded species are cosmopolitan in distribution. Cephalodella ventripes, Dicranophorus forcipatus, D. luetk...

S exual reproduction is one of the most striking features of the biological world. The great majority of the animals and plants with which we are most familiar reproduce at least part of the time by means of sexual reproduction with meiosis, recombination, and fertilization. But many eukaryotes reproduce asexually part of the time, and some are exclusively asexual (1, 2). Two articles in a rece...

Neurodegenerative diseases are linked to a systemic enzyme resistance of toxic aggregated molecules and their pathological consequences. This paper presents a unique phenomenon that Philodina acuticornis, a bdelloid rotifer, is able to catabolize different types of neurotoxic peptide and protein aggregates (such as beta-amyloids /Aβ/, alpha-synuclein, and prion) without suffering any damage. P....

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of rotifer internalization into snail tissue on the development of schistosomes. METHODS Susceptible laboratory-bred Biomphalaria alexandrina (B. alexandrina) snails were exposed to lab-maintained rotifers; Philodina spp., two weeks before and after being infected with Schistosoma mansoni (S. mansoni) miracidia. The consequent histopathological impact on sn...

Résumé Characteristics of Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) isolated from rotifers, ~rachionus plicutilis, resembled those of Lactobacillus plantarum or Carnobacteriurn sp. It was investigated whether the artificial maintenance of a high concentration of LAB in rotifers might increase their dietary value for turbot larvae, particularly when the fish were infected with pathogenic Vibrio sp. One LAB str...

This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of probiotic (Bacillus latrospores and Bacillus licheniformis) on growth and survival of Silver carp larvae (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix). Rotifers (Brachionus plicatilis) were used as live prey vehicle for probiotic transport. They were cultured in sea water with 15 ppt salinity and Nannochloropsis oculata microalgae was used as feed. Five trea...

despite rapid growth of our knowledge on the phylum rotifera, only few studies on iranian rotifers have been carried out. in this paper, we present a checklist of rotifers from the province of tehran in iran. in total, 45 species of rotifers (class eurotatoria) are reported. most of the recorded species are cosmopolitan in distribution. cephalodella ventripes, dicranophorus forcipatus, d. luetk...

In the present study, water samples from 3 stations of Kor river, Iran were analyzed for seasonal fluctuation of physico-chemical parameters, i.e. air and water temperature, dissolved oxygen, BOD, COD, total nitrogen, total hardness, pH, alkalinity, acidity, total dissolved solid and water current. Effect of physico-chemical parameters on surface water density of rotifers was also studied. Duri...